2026 Horror Watchlist

What. Fresh. Hell is coming to screens in 2026? Here is my horror watchlist to keep track of movies and series. Dates are subject to change and often do.

Movies I've seen marked are marked in orange. My full movie reviews are available on Letterboxd.

🔥 Loved It 👍🏽 Liked & Recommended      👌🏽 Just Okay      👎🏽 Not Recommended

JANUARY

2 - We Bury the Dead👍🏽

9 - Primate

9 - Greenland 2: Migration 👌🏽

16 - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple 👍🏽

16 - Night Patrol 👎🏽

23 - Return to Silent Hill 👎🏽

23 - Mother of Flies (Shudder) 👍🏽

30 - Send Help 👍🏽

30 - Iron Lung  👍🏽

FEBRUARY

6 - Dracula (Dir. Luc Besson)

6 - Whistle 👌🏽

6 - The Strangers; Chapter 3

6 - The Arborist (Dark Sky Films)

8 - The Burbs (Series, Peacock) 👍🏽

11 - Gale: Yellow Brick Road

13 - Cold Storage

13 - Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die 👌🏽

17 - Ghost Train (South Korean Anthology)

20 - Psycho Killer 👎🏽

20 - This is Not a Test

20 - The Dreadful (period piece) 👎🏽

23 - No Me Sigas (Hulu) 👎🏽

27 - Scream 7

27 - Crazy Old Lady (Shudder)

27 - Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S2 (Series, Apple TV)

MARCH

6 - The Bride! (Dir. Maggie Gyllenhal) 🔥

6 - Dolly (Shudder)

13 - Undertone 🔥

13 - Bodycam (Shudder) 👌🏽

20 - Project Hail Mary 🔥

20 – 1000 Women in Horror (Documentary, Shudder)

20 - Ready or Not 2: Here I Come 🔥

26 - Something Very Bad is Going to Happen (Netflix) 👍🏽

27 - Alpha (Dir. Julia Ducournau)

27 - They Will Kill You 👍🏽

27 - The Mortuary Assistant (Shudder) 💩

27 - Forbidden Fruits 👍🏽

APRIL

3 - The Third Parent

7 – Touch Me 👌🏽

8 – The Boys, Season 5 (Prime) ✋🏽

10 - Exit 8 🔥

10 - Faces of Death 👍🏽

10 – Hunting Matthew Nichols

10 – The Yeti

10 - Thrash (Netflix)

17 - Marama (period horror) 👍🏽

17 - Lee Cronin's The Mummy 🔥

24 - Over Your Dead Body

24 – Mother Mary (A24)

24 – Apex (Netflix)

24 – The Wolf and the Lamb

29 – Widow's Bay (Series, Apple TV) 🔥

MAY

1 - Hokum 🔥

1 – Deep Water

5 - Scared to Death

7 - The Terror S3: Devil In Silver (Series, Shudder) 🔥

8 - Whistle (Shudder) ✋🏽

8 - Mortal Kombat II

15 - Obsession 🔥

22 – This is Not A Test (Shudder)

22 – Corporate Retreat

22 – Sick Puppy

22 – Saccharine

22 - Passenger (Dir. Andre Ovredal) 👎🏽

29 - Backrooms 🔥

JUNE

5 - Masters of the Universe

5 - Scary Movie 6

5 – Affection (VOD)

5 – Cape Fear (Series, Apple TV)

7 – The Vampire Lestat (Series, AMC+)

12 – The Furious

12 – Kraken (VOD)

12 – I Am Frankelda (Netflix) 👍🏽

12 - Disclosure Day 👌🏽

19 - Leviticus (Queer horror)

19 – The Voices of Our Mother (Shudder)

19 – The Rose of Nevada

23 – Hold the Fort (Halloween theme)

26 – Hungry

26 – Strung (Peacock)

JULY

3 - Shiver

7 – Black Box

10 – Corporate Retreat

10 – Camp

17 – The Bay

24 - Evil Dead Burn 👍🏽

24 – Pinocchio Unstrung

24 – Her Private Hell

31 – Nightborn (Shudder)

AUGUST

1 – SOULM8TE

7 - Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man

7 – The Last House (Netflix)

7 – Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

14 - The End of Oak Street

21 - Insidious: Out of the Further

21 – It Ends

28 – Colony

28 – Buddy

28 – The Whisper Man (Netflix)

SEPTEMBER

4 – Fall 2: Deadpoint

4 – Onslaught

9 – Hope

11 – Don't Move

11 - Clayface

11 – Practical Magic 2

18 - Resident Evil

24 – American Horror Story: 13 (FX)

25 - Victorian Psycho

25 – Never After Dark

OCTOBER

2 – Beware BOIÚNA

2 – Verity (with Anne Hathaway)

2 – Crawlers

9 - Other Mommy

15 – Crystal Lake (Series, Peacock)

16 – Whalefall

16 – At the Place of Ghosts

23 - Wildwood (Laika, stop motion fantasy)

23 – Clayface

30 – Christmas at the Kringles

NOVEMBER

1 - Unholy Night

6 - Godzilla Minus Zero

13 - Return of the Living Dead

13 - Ebenezer (Dir. Ti West Christmas Carol)

13 - The Great Beyond (Dir. J.J. Abrams)

DECEMBER

4 - Violent Night 2

25 - Werwulf (dir. Robert Eggers)

UPCOMING MOVIES (DATE TBA)

Altar (A24, starring Kyle MacLachlan)

Beacon

The Blair Witch Project (Reboot, 2027)

Boutique (Paul Giamatti, XYZ Films)

Bowels of Hell (killer toilets!!!)

Bury the Devil (single shot exorcism movie)

The Call of Cthulhu (dir. James Wan)

Coherence 2

The Conjuring: First Communion (Sep. 10, 2027)

A Corpse in Kensington 2026

Creature from the Black Lagoon (Dir. James Wan)

Dead by Daylight

Don't Go In That House, Bitch! (Eli Roth producing)

Dooba Dooba

Drag (January 29, 2027)

Entity Within (Remake of The Entity, starring Heather Graham)

Evil Dead Wrath (Dir. Francis Galluppi, April 7, 2028)

The Exorcist (Dir. Mike Flanagan; March 12, 2027)

Final Destination 7 (May 12, 2028)

The Ghost (An Taibhse)

Ghost Eaters

Ghost in the Cell (Indonesian horror comedy)

Gladys (prequel to Weapons, September 8, 2028)

Godzilla X Kong: Supernova

Gremlins 3 (2027)

The Haunting in Wicker Park (formerly True Haunting)

Horrorstor (based on Grandy Hendrix book)

Imposters

In a Violent Nature 2

Little Slice of Hell (Dir. David F. Sandberg)

Magic (remake, Sam Raimi producing)

The Masque of the Red Death (A24 reimagining)

Medicina Para Fantasmas

The Mist (Dir. Mike Flanagan)

The Mummy 4 (May 19, 2028)

Omnicron

Orphans

Pacifico

Paranormal Activity (May 21, 2027)

Pendulum (produced by Darren Aronofsky)

Perdita

Possession (remake!)

A Quiet Place, Part III

The Remedy

The Revenge of La Llorona (April 9, 2027)

Riddick: Furya

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 2

Sender

Smile 3

Talk 2 Me (Sequel) - 2028

Thanksgiving 2 - 2028

They Follow - 2026

Thread: An Insidious Tale

Tinsman Rd.

Untitled Jordan Peele Movie - 2028

Visitation

The Weekend (Nigerian horror)

What Happens At Night (Dir. Martin Scorcese)

Witches (UK documentary)

The Young People (Dir. Osgood Perkins)

UPCOMING SERIES (DATE TBA)

Angel Heart (HBO, starring Zac Efron)

The Birds (Limited Series)

Carrie (Dir. Mike Flanagan)

The Conjuring (prequel series, HBO)

Hostel (starring Paul Giamatti)

Lobo (Series, Netflix)

Poltergeist

Summer of 1985 (Swedish, Series)

True Detective (Dir. Issa Lopez)

Wednesday, S3

Updated 7-19-2026

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